He'ua (Reh. Ifena', "2!^, signif. unknown; Sept. 'Ava, but in Isa. xxxvii, 13 blends with the following name into 'Avaeyyovyavd, q.d. " Ana-near- Ava ;" Vulg. A na), a city (apparently of Mesopotamia) mentioned in connection with Sepharvaim and Ivah as one of those overthrown by Sennacherib before his invasion of Ju- diKa (2 Kings xviii, 84 ; xix, 13 ; Isa. xxxvii, 13). Ac- cording to the conjectiu-e of Busching {Erdbeschr. xi, 263, 757), it is the town which is stiU called by the Arabs Aiuih. It lies on the Euphrates, amid gardens, which are rich in dates, citrons, oranges, pomegranates, and other fruits. The modern site is on the right bank of the stream, while the name also attaches to some ruins a little lower down upon the left bank ; but be- tween them is " a string of islands" (Chesney's Euphra- tes Expedition, i, 53), upon one of which stands a castle. Perhaps, in ancient times, the city lay, for the most part, or entirely, upon this island, for Abulfeda says that '• Anah is a small town on an island in the middle of the Euphrates" (see Assemani, Bib!. Orient. Ill, ii, 717; Mi- chaelis, Supplem. p. 562). The iuhal/itants are chiefly Arabs and Jews. Conjecture fiurther identities A na with a town called Anat (p \i merely the feminine termina- tion), which is mentioned in the Assyrian inscriptions as situated on an island iu the Euphrates (Fox Talbot's Assyrian Texts, p. 21; Layard's Nineveh and Babylon, p.355), at some distance below its junction with the Cha- bour, and which appears as Anatho (^Avadio) m Isidore of Charax {Mans. Parth. p. 4). Hitzig, however {Com- me>a. on Isa.\.c.), t\m\ka the name an appellation, equiv- alent to "the Lowland," and in this signification Fiirst {Heb. Lexikon, s. v.) concurs (q. d. i"D3 ; see Canaan). Comp. SEPiiAKVAur.
Hen'adad (Heb. Chenadad', 113n, probably for "H l^rt./aror ofHadad; Sept. 'RvaidS), a Levite whose sons were active in the enterprises of the restoration af- ter the captivity (Ezra iii, 9) ; two of the latter, Bavai and Binnui, are named (Neh. iii, 18, 24; x, 9). B.C. ante 535.
Hendel, William, D.D., one of the pioneers of the German Reformed Church in the United States, was bom in the Palatinate in the first half of the 18th centurj\ Having completed his theological studies, he came to America in 1764, and in Jan. 1765 became pastor of the German Reformed congregation at Lancaster, Pa. Dur- ing the years 1769-1782 he had charge of the congre- gation at Tulpehocken and neighboring congregations. Indeed, he served as many as nine at a time, besides making frequent missionary excursions. In Sept. 1782, he accepted a call to return to his Lancaster congrega- tion. He was made D.D. by the College of New Jersey in 1788. In February, 1794, "he removed to Philadelphia, which was his last station. Shortly after his arrival the yellow fever broke out the second time, and while faith- fully ministering to the sick and dying, he died of the fever Sept. 29, 1798. Dr. Hendel was a good scholar, and a man of great pidpit talents. — Harbaugh, Fathers of the Prformrd Church, ii. 120 sq.
Henderson, Alexander, a minister of the Church of Scotland, was Ijorn in Fifeshire about 1583. He stud- ied at St. Andre-w's, where he passed A.M. in 1603, and where, about 1610, he was professor of philosophy. About 1615 (according to M'Crie) he was presented to the parish of Leuchars by archbishop Gladstanes. As the episcopal government was very unpopidar with the people, they resisted Mr. Henderson's settlement, even to the extent of closing the church doors against him. Ill a few years, however, Henderson became convinced
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that "episcopacy was unauthorized by the Word of God, and inconsistent with the reformed Constitution of the Church of Scotland." He entered into the strife against prelacy with great vigor. In IGID he was call- ed before the High Commission at St. Andrew's, but de- fended himself successfully. When the episcopal liturgy was ordered to be used in Scotland in 1637 he joined in tlie resistance made to it. He was one of the writers of the renewed "League and Covenant," sworn to by thousands at Grayfriars' Church, Edinburgh, March 1, 1G38. He was moderator of the famous General As- sembly of that year, and he executed the functions of liis office Avith singular skill, tirmuess, and prudence. At the nineteenth session Henderson preached a power- ful sermon, and at its close pronounced the sentence of deposition (against the bishops) which had been adopt- ed by the Assembly. He was removed, much against liis wiU, in 1G38, from the church at Leuchars to EtUn- burgh. In 16-10 he was made rector of the University of Edinburgh. During 1642 he was employed in man- aging tlie con-espondence with England regarding ref- ormation and reunion of the churches. In 1643 he was again moderator of the General Assembly ; and in tliat year he, with others, represented Scotland at the West- minster Assembly, and he resided in London for three years. In 1645 he was appointed to assist the commis- sioners of Parliament to treat with the king at Ux- bridge, and also at Newcastle in 1686. In the papers on episcopacy delivered by him in these conferences he displayed great learning and ability. His constitution was broken by long and excessive labors. In the sum- mer of 1846 he returned to Edinburgh, and on the 19th of August in that year he died of the stone. The Con- stitution of the Scottish Church M'as framed chiefly by Henderson. " He Avas evidently of that sort of men of whicli martyrs are made, and needed only a change of circumstances to have given his name a high place among those who have sealed a good confession v.ith their blood. Nearly every considerable production of that memorable period bears his impress. The Solemn League and Covenant was his own composition. The Directory Mas formed under his eye. He wrote the principal part of the Confession of Faith with liis oWn hand. And the form of Chiurch government which the Assembly attempted in vain to give to the Church of England was little more than a transcript of that which he had a little before drawn up for the Church of Scot- land" (Curry, in Methodist Quarterly, 1848, p. 600) . '• So long as the purity of our Presbyterian establishment re- mains," says Dr. Alton, "as often as the General As- sembly of our Church is permitted to convene — while the Confession of Faith and Catechisms Larger and Shorter hold a place in our estimation second to the Scriptures alone — and till the history of the revolution during the reign of Charles I is forgotten — the memory of Alexander Henderson will be respected, and everj' Presbyterian patriot in Scotland will continue grateful for the Second Reformation of our Church, ivhich Hen- derson was so instrumental in effecting." His life was spent in active labors, allowing little time for writing, except the documents and pamphlets necessarj- to the great controversy in which he took so large a ])ai-t. Two of his sermons — preached severallv before the two houses of Parliament (1644) and the House of Lords (1645)— arc given at the end of M'Crie's/,//e of Alexander Hen- derson (Edinburgh, 1846). See also Howie, Scots' Wor- thies, p. 349; Collier, Eccks. Hist, of England, viii, 293- ' 325; Hetherington, C/»»Y/i cf Scotland, vol. i; Cumiing- ham, Church Principles (Edinburgh, 1863), p. 384 sq.